Have you given up? Are you frustrated and want
to break your Monkey Island CD into itty bitty shards of plastic? Has Monkey
Kombat caused you to pull out your hair when you are so close to the end? Well,
fret no more, the following instructions will (hopefully) be the undoing of
Monkey Kombat’s secrets.

Important things to keep in
mind:

(This is going to be confusing but that’s why
you are here isn’t it? Read these instructions more than once and try some of
the suggestions while practicing)

#1-Monkey Kombat is a learned art.

#2- You learn the information needed to win by
practicing.

#3- You will have to practice. There is no way
around it.

#4-There are 5 different monkey stances:

Anxious Ape

AA

Bobbing Baboon

BB

Charging Chimp

CC

Drunken Monkey

DM

Gimpy Gibbon

GG

#5-Each stance beats 2 other stances.

#6-To change from one stance to another you
must utter 3 different monkey sounds from a possible 4 sounds.

Ack

up arrow

A

Chee

left arrow

C

Oop

right arrow

O

Eek

down arrow

E

#7-You learn the 3 sounds needed by copying
what sounds are made by the monkey you are fighting with during practice.

#8-When you have a DRAW (no one wins), the
monkey stance for you and the monkey will change to a new stance.

#9-The 3 sounds needed to change from one
stance to another, is the same changing from either direction.

Example: If you want to change from
Anxious Ape to Bobbing Baboon and the 3 sounds are ACK-OOP-CHEE you can
also change from Bobbing Baboon to Anxious Ape by saying ACK-OOP-CHEE
(the same 3 sounds).

#10-If you get a FOUL you have used a set of 3
sounds that don’t work with the monkey stance you are in. Let’s say that
you are Charging Chimp. Here are sample Charging Chimp change
codes.

Charging Chimp to
Anxious Ape

chee-eek-oop

Charging Chimp to
Bobbing Baboon

oop-ack-eek

Charging Chimp to
Drunken Monkey

ack-eek-chee

Charging Chimp to Gimpy
Gibbon

ack-chee-eek

*****To stay Charging Chimp hit any 3 same
sounds (ack-ack-ack or chee chee-chee, etc) This works for any
stance you are in.*****

Also remember that these same codes work
backwards. If you are Anxious Ape and want to be Charging Chimp you
would use chee-eek-oop, the same as for Charging Chimp to Anxious Ape.

OK now, if you used oop-chee-eek you
would get a FOUL as it is not a Charging Chimp code.

#11-The code sounds I am using are for my
game. It is possible that your game uses the same codes. Wouldn’t
that be nice J

#12-While practice fighting use the spacebar to
pause the game and write down the needed information. Let’s say you just
started your first practice fight. You both are Anxious Ape and the monkey
goes first. He utters: chee-eek oop and you hit the spacebar to pause
the game. Write this down: AA (for Anxious Ape) to __________ = CEO (chee-eek-oop).
Hit the spacebar again to unpause the game. The monkey’s
stance changes from AA to Charging Chimp (CC). Hit the spacebar to pause
the game again and fill in the blank with CC (Charging Chimp).

AA to CC = CEO (anxious ape to
charging chimp type in chee-eek-oop)

You also now know that CC to AA = CEO (remember
#10?)

#13-After the monkey changes from Anxious Ape
to Charging Chimp you will get zapped and lose a banana. (This is what
happened in my game but you may have different codes and what beats what in your
game). You must record what happened.

#14-Write this down:

Anxious Ape beats _________
__________

Bobbing Baboon beats ________
_________

Charging Chimp beats _________
_________

Drunken Monkey beats _________
_________

Gimpy Gibbon beats __________
_________

You can now write in that Charging chimp
beats Anxious Ape. My filled in stance record looked like this:

AA beats BB and GG

BB beats CC and DM

CC beats AA and GG

DM beats AA and CC

GG beats BB and DM

#15-You need to fight Timid monkey, smelly
monkey and brawny monkey in practice fights to gain all the
information that you need to beat JoJoJr.

#16-Memorize everything you’ve just read.

Let’s do a practice fight

You start with Timid monkey and you both are
probably Anxious Ape. The monkey will probably go first during early practice
rounds. He utters chee-eek-oop and becomes Charging chimp. You lose a banana.

Write down “CC
beats AA” and also “to change from AA to CC and CC to AA say chee-eek-oop (ceo)”.

You don’t know any codes yet so you say
chee-eek-oop and also become Charging Chimp. You have a DRAW and no one loses a
banana.

You both now become Bobbing Baboon and the
monkey goes first. He utters: ack-oop-chee and becomes Anxious Ape. You lose a
banana.

Write down “AA beats BB” and also “to
change from BB to AA and AA to BB say AOC (ack-oop-chee)”.

You still don’t know enough codes and stances
to defend yourself so you just say ack-oop-chee and become Anxious Ape as well.
Draw again.

The monkey says eek-eek-eek and he stays
Anxious Ape (remember #10). Another draw and no one loses a banana. Now you
have the upper hand. You are a brilliant deductionist and know from the very
first move that Charging Chimp beats Anxious Ape, so you say “chee-eek-oop”.
You have become Charging Chimp and zap your opponent.

You unfortunately will lose a couple of times.
Use the spacebar. Take your time figuring out what beats what while paused and
then zap him.

When you finally beat him, you need to move on
to the next monkey. That would be Smelly Monkey. You will learn new codes and
what beats what for different stances. You may learn the Gimpy Gibbon code to
become Charging Chimp and or that Drunken Monkey beats Anxious Ape.

Record every new thing you learn. You will
eventually move on to Brawny Monkey and learn the last codes needed to beat JoJo
Jr. Don’t worry, JoJo is easy. He flubs at the end. You just need to know
your codes and what beats what.

It’s possible that you will have the same set
of codes and what beats what so I’m listing what I recorded while learning to
fight Monkey Kombat. Everything is abbreviated.

STANCES – what beats what

AA beats BB and GG

BB beats CC and DM

CC beats AA and GG

DM beats AA and CC

GG beats BB and DM

CODES – changing sound codes

CC to AA = CEO = AA to CC

CC to BB = OAE = BB to CC

CC to DM = AEC = DM to CC

CC to GG = ACE = GG to CC

AA to BB = AOC = BB to AA

AA to DM = EOA = DM to AA

AA to GG = ??? never got it, never needed it

BB to DM = ACO = DM to BB

BB to GG = OCE = GG to BB

DM to GG = AEO = GG to DM

I hope that this makes just enough sense to
help you understand the information needed to compete and win at Monkey Kombat.
It looks like a lot of information but really it is just hard to explain, not
hard to execute.